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Kim SM, Forsburg SL. Determinants of RPA megafoci localization to the nuclear periphery in response to replication stress. G3 (BETHESDA, MD.) 2022; 12:jkac116. [PMID: 35567482 PMCID: PMC9258583 DOI: 10.1093/g3journal/jkac116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2022] [Accepted: 05/04/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Upon replication stress, ssDNA, coated by the ssDNA-binding protein RPA, accumulates and generates a signal to activate the replication stress response. Severe replication stress induced by the loss of minichromosome maintenance helicase subunit Mcm4 in the temperature-sensitive Schizosaccharomyces pombe degron mutant (mcm4-dg) results in the formation of a large RPA focus that is translocated to the nuclear periphery. We show that resection and repair processes and chromatin remodeler Swr1/Ino80 are involved in the large RPA foci formation and its relocalization to nuclear periphery. This concentrated accumulation of RPA increases the recruitment of Cds1 to chromatin and results in an aberrant cell cycle that lacks MBF-mediated G1/S accumulation of Tos4. These findings reveal a distinct replication stress response mediated by localized accumulation of RPA that allows the evasion of cell cycle arrest.
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- Seong Min Kim
- Molecular & Computational Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90007, USA
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- Corresponding author: Molecular & Computational Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90007, USA.
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Wang Q, Zhang Q, Zheng M, Wen J, Li Q, Zhao G. Viral-Host Interactome Analysis Reveals Chicken STAU2 Interacts With Non-structural Protein 1 and Promotes the Replication of H5N1 Avian Influenza Virus. Front Immunol 2021; 12:590679. [PMID: 33968009 PMCID: PMC8098808 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2021.590679] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2020] [Accepted: 02/22/2021] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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As a highly pathogenic influenza virus, H5N1 avian influenza virus (AIV) poses a great threat to poultry production and public health. H5N1 AIV has a small genome and, therefore, relies heavily on its host cellular machinery to replicate. To develop a comprehensive understanding of how H5N1 AIV rewires host cellular machinery during the course of infection, it is crucial to identify which host proteins and complexes come into physical contact with the viral proteins. Here, we utilized affinity purification mass spectrometry (AP-MS) to systematically determine the physical interactions of 11 H5N1 AIV proteins with host proteins in chicken DF1 cells. We identified with high confidence 1,043 H5N1 AIV–chicken interactions involving 621 individual chicken proteins and uncovered a number of host proteins and complexes that were targeted by the viral proteins. Specifically, we revealed that chicken Staufen double-stranded RNA-binding protein 2 interacts with AIV non-structural protein 1 (NS1) and promotes the replication of the virus by enhancing the nuclear export of NS1 mRNA. This dataset facilitates a more comprehensive and detailed understanding of how the host machinery is manipulated during the course of H5N1 AIV infection.
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- Qiao Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China
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Active Replication Checkpoint Drives Genome Instability in Fission Yeast mcm4 Mutant. Mol Cell Biol 2020; 40:MCB.00033-20. [PMID: 32341083 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.00033-20] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2020] [Accepted: 04/17/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Upon replication fork arrest, the replication checkpoint kinase Cds1 is stimulated to preserve genome integrity. Robust activation of Cds1 in response to hydroxyurea prevents the endonuclease Mus81 from cleaving the stalled replication fork inappropriately. However, we find that the response is different in temperature-sensitive mcm4 mutants, affecting a subunit of the MCM replicative helicase. We show that Cds1 inhibition of Mus81 promotes genomic instability and allows mcm4-dg cells to evade cell cycle arrest. Cds1 regulation of Mus81 activity also contributes to the formation of the replication stress-induced DNA damage markers replication protein A (RPA) and Ku. These results identify a surprising role for Cds1 in driving DNA damage and disrupted chromosomal segregation under certain conditions of replication stress.
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Kim SM, Tripathi VP, Shen KF, Forsburg SL. Checkpoint Regulation of Nuclear Tos4 Defines S Phase Arrest in Fission Yeast. G3 (BETHESDA, MD.) 2020; 10:255-266. [PMID: 31719112 PMCID: PMC6945033 DOI: 10.1534/g3.119.400726] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2019] [Accepted: 11/11/2019] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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From yeast to humans, the cell cycle is tightly controlled by regulatory networks that regulate cell proliferation and can be monitored by dynamic visual markers in living cells. We have observed S phase progression by monitoring nuclear accumulation of the FHA-containing DNA binding protein Tos4, which is expressed in the G1/S phase transition. We use Tos4 localization to distinguish three classes of DNA replication mutants: those that arrest with an apparent 1C DNA content and accumulate Tos4 at the restrictive temperature; those that arrest with an apparent 2C DNA content, that do not accumulate Tos4; and those that proceed into mitosis despite a 1C DNA content, again without Tos4 accumulation. Our data indicate that Tos4 localization in these conditions is responsive to checkpoint kinases, with activation of the Cds1 checkpoint kinase promoting Tos4 retention in the nucleus, and activation of the Chk1 damage checkpoint promoting its turnover. Tos4 localization therefore allows us to monitor checkpoint-dependent activation that responds to replication failure in early vs. late S phase.
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- Seong M Kim
- Program in Molecular and Computational Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles CA 90089
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- Program in Molecular and Computational Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles CA 90089
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- Program in Molecular and Computational Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles CA 90089
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- Program in Molecular and Computational Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles CA 90089
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Singh B, Bisht KK, Upadhyay U, Kushwaha AC, Nanda JS, Srivastava S, Saini JK, Klar AJS, Singh J. Role of Cdc23/Mcm10 in generating the ribonucleotide imprint at the mat1 locus in fission yeast. Nucleic Acids Res 2019; 47:3422-3433. [PMID: 30759238 PMCID: PMC6468313 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkz092] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2018] [Revised: 01/31/2019] [Accepted: 02/10/2019] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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The developmental asymmetry of fission yeast daughter cells derives from inheriting ‘older Watson’ versus ‘older Crick’ DNA strand from the parental cell, strands that are complementary but not identical with each other. A novel DNA strand-specific ‘imprint’, installed during DNA replication at the mating-type locus (mat1), imparts competence for cell type inter-conversion to one of the two chromosome replicas. The catalytic subunit of DNA Polymerase α (Polα) has been implicated in the imprinting process. Based on its known biochemical function, Polα might install the mat1 imprint during lagging strand synthesis. The nature of the imprint is not clear: it is either a nick or a ribonucleotide insertion. Our investigations do not support a direct role of Polα in nicking through putative endonuclease domains but confirm its indirect role in installing an alkali-labile moiety as the imprint. While ruling out the role of the primase subunit of Polα holoenzyme, we find that mutations in the Polα-recruitment and putative primase homology domain in Mcm10/Cdc23 abrogate the ribonucleotide imprint formation. These results, while confirming the ribonucleotide nature of the imprint suggest the possibility of a direct role of Mcm10/Cdc23 in installing it in cooperation with Polα and Swi1.
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- Balveer Singh
- Institute of Genetics and Development of Rennes, Faculte de Medecine, Campus santé de Villejean, 2 avenue du Professor Leon Bernard, CS 34317, 35043 Rennes Cedex, France
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- Translational Discovery Biology, (Immuno-Oncology), Bristol-Myers Squibb Route 206 & Province Line Road, Princeton, NJ 08543, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, RMSB 8022, 1600 NW, 10th Ave., Miami, FL 33136, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- QC Division, Central Research Institute, Kasauli, Himachal Pradesh 173204, India
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- Institute of Microbial Technology, Sector 39A, Chandigarh 160036, India
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- Gene Regulation and Chromosome Biology Laboratory, National Cancer Institute, Center for Cancer Research, National Institutes of Health, Building 539, Room 154, Frederick, MD 21702-1201, USA
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- Institute of Microbial Technology, Sector 39A, Chandigarh 160036, India
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Wang Q, Liu R, Li Q, Wang F, Zhu B, Zheng M, Cui H, Wen J, Zhao G. Host cell interactome of PB1 N40 protein of H5N1 influenza A virus in chicken cells. J Proteomics 2019; 197:34-41. [PMID: 30790688 DOI: 10.1016/j.jprot.2019.02.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2018] [Revised: 01/15/2019] [Accepted: 02/15/2019] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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H5N1 influenza A virus (IAV) causes seasonal epidemics that represent a worldwide threat to public health. IAV relies on host factors for viral replication. PB1 N40 is translated from the fifth starting code (AUG) of PB1 mRNA, which is the product of the ribosomal scan omission. Here, we report the interactome landscape of H5N1 IAV PB1 N40 protein in chicken cells. The interacting complexes were captured by co-immunoprecipitation and analyzed by mass spectrometry. We identified 135 proteins as PB1 N40-interacting proteins. GO and Pathway analysis showed that proteins with biological functions such as protein localization and viral transcription and proteins related to signaling pathways of DNA replication and cell cycle were significantly enriched in virus-host interactions, suggesting the potential roles of them in infection with H5N1 IAV. Comparative analysis among H1N1 and H5N1 revealed conservation of the virus-host protein interaction between different subtypes or strains of influenza virus. ARCN1 was identified as a host interacting factor of H5N1 IAV PB1 N40 protein, which is the component of the coatomer. Knockdown of ARCN1 significantly decreased the titer of H5N1 IAV in chicken cells. BIOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE: Influenza A virus (IAV) is a great threat to public health and avian production. However, the manner in which avian IAV recruits the host cellular machinery for replication and how the host antagonizes the IAV infection was previously poorly understood. Here we present the viral-host interactome of the H5N1 IAV PB1 N40 protein and reveal its involvement with dozens of important host genes during the course of IAV infection.
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- Qiao Wang
- Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China; State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China; State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China; State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China; State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China; State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China; State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China; School of Life Science and Engineering, Foshan University, Foshan, China.
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Fei L, Ma Y, Zhang M, Liu X, Luo Y, Wang C, Zhang H, Zhang W, Han Y. RACK1 promotes lung cancer cell growth via an MCM7/RACK1/ Akt signaling complex. Oncotarget 2018; 8:40501-40513. [PMID: 28465488 PMCID: PMC5522230 DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.17120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2016] [Accepted: 04/03/2017] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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MCM7, a member of the miniature chromosome maintenance (MCM) protein family, is crucial for the initiation of DNA replication and proliferation in eukaryotic cells. In this report, we demonstrate that RACK1 regulates cell growth and cell cycle progression in human non-small-cell lung cancer by mediating MCM7 phosphorylation through an MCM7/RACK1/Akt signaling complex. RACK1 functions as a central scaffold that brings Akt into physical proximity with MCM7. Overexpression of RACK1 increases interactions between Akt and MCM7 and promotes Akt-dependent MCM7 phosphorylation, which in turn increases MCM7 binding to chromatin and MCM complex formation. Together, these changes promote DNA replication and cell proliferation. Our findings reveal a novel signaling pathway that regulates growth in non-small cell lung cancer.
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- Liangru Fei
- Department of Pathology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, China Medical University, Shenyang 110000, China
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- Department of Pathology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, China Medical University, Shenyang 110000, China
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- Department of Pathology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, China Medical University, Shenyang 110000, China
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- Department of Pathology, The First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang 110000, China
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- Department of Pathology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, China Medical University, Shenyang 110000, China
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- Department of Pathology, The First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang 110000, China
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- Department of Pathology, The First People's Hospital of Jining, Shandong 272000, China
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- Department of Pathology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, China Medical University, Shenyang 110000, China
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- Department of Pathology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, China Medical University, Shenyang 110000, China.,Department of Pathology, The First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang 110000, China
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Ranatunga NS, Forsburg SL. Characterization of a Novel MMS-Sensitive Allele of Schizosaccharomyces pombe mcm4. G3 (BETHESDA, MD.) 2016; 6:3049-3063. [PMID: 27473316 PMCID: PMC5068930 DOI: 10.1534/g3.116.033571] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2016] [Accepted: 07/20/2016] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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The minichromosome maintenance (MCM) complex is the conserved helicase motor of the eukaryotic replication fork. Mutations in the Mcm4 subunit are associated with replication stress and double strand breaks in multiple systems. In this work, we characterize a new temperature-sensitive allele of Schizosaccharomyces pombe mcm4+ Uniquely among known mcm4 alleles, this mutation causes sensitivity to the alkylation damaging agent methyl methanesulfonate (MMS). Even in the absence of treatment or temperature shift, mcm4-c106 cells show increased repair foci of RPA and Rad52, and require the damage checkpoint for viability, indicating genome stress. The mcm4-c106 mutant is synthetically lethal with mutations disrupting fork protection complex (FPC) proteins Swi1 and Swi3. Surprisingly, we found that the deletion of rif1+ suppressed the MMS-sensitive phenotype without affecting temperature sensitivity. Together, these data suggest that mcm4-c106 destabilizes replisome structure.
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- Nimna S Ranatunga
- Program in Molecular and Computational Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089
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- Program in Molecular and Computational Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089
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García-Marqués F, Trevisan-Herraz M, Martínez-Martínez S, Camafeita E, Jorge I, Lopez JA, Méndez-Barbero N, Méndez-Ferrer S, Del Pozo MA, Ibáñez B, Andrés V, Sánchez-Madrid F, Redondo JM, Bonzon-Kulichenko E, Vázquez J. A Novel Systems-Biology Algorithm for the Analysis of Coordinated Protein Responses Using Quantitative Proteomics. Mol Cell Proteomics 2016; 15:1740-60. [PMID: 26893027 DOI: 10.1074/mcp.m115.055905] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2015] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The coordinated behavior of proteins is central to systems biology. However, the underlying mechanisms are poorly known and methods to analyze coordination by conventional quantitative proteomics are still lacking. We present the Systems Biology Triangle (SBT), a new algorithm that allows the study of protein coordination by pairwise quantitative proteomics. The Systems Biology Triangle detected statistically significant coordination in diverse biological models of very different nature and subjected to different kinds of perturbations. The Systems Biology Triangle also revealed with unprecedented molecular detail an array of coordinated, early protein responses in vascular smooth muscle cells treated at different times with angiotensin-II. These responses included activation of protein synthesis, folding, turnover, and muscle contraction - consistent with a differentiated phenotype-as well as the induction of migration and the repression of cell proliferation and secretion. Remarkably, the majority of the altered functional categories were protein complexes, interaction networks, or metabolic pathways. These changes could not be detected by other algorithms widely used by the proteomics community, and the vast majority of proteins involved have not been described before to be regulated by AngII. The unique capabilities of The Systems Biology Triangle to detect functional protein alterations produced by the coordinated action of proteins in pairwise quantitative proteomics experiments make this algorithm an attractive choice for the biological interpretation of results on a routine basis.
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- Fernando García-Marqués
- From the ‡Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (CNIC), Madrid, Spain
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- From the ‡Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (CNIC), Madrid, Spain
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- From the ‡Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (CNIC), Madrid, Spain
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- From the ‡Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (CNIC), Madrid, Spain
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- From the ‡Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (CNIC), Madrid, Spain
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- From the ‡Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (CNIC), Madrid, Spain
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- From the ‡Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (CNIC), Madrid, Spain
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- From the ‡Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (CNIC), Madrid, Spain
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- From the ‡Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (CNIC), Madrid, Spain
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- From the ‡Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (CNIC), Madrid, Spain
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- From the ‡Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (CNIC), Madrid, Spain
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- From the ‡Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (CNIC), Madrid, Spain
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- From the ‡Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (CNIC), Madrid, Spain
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- From the ‡Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (CNIC), Madrid, Spain
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Hoffman CS, Wood V, Fantes PA. An Ancient Yeast for Young Geneticists: A Primer on the Schizosaccharomyces pombe Model System. Genetics 2015; 201:403-23. [PMID: 26447128 PMCID: PMC4596657 DOI: 10.1534/genetics.115.181503] [Citation(s) in RCA: 146] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
Abstract
The fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe is an important model organism for the study of eukaryotic molecular and cellular biology. Studies of S. pombe, together with studies of its distant cousin, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, have led to the discovery of genes involved in fundamental mechanisms of transcription, translation, DNA replication, cell cycle control, and signal transduction, to name but a few processes. However, since the divergence of the two species approximately 350 million years ago, S. pombe appears to have evolved less rapidly than S. cerevisiae so that it retains more characteristics of the common ancient yeast ancestor, causing it to share more features with metazoan cells. This Primer introduces S. pombe by describing the yeast itself, providing a brief description of the origins of fission yeast research, and illustrating some genetic and bioinformatics tools used to study protein function in fission yeast. In addition, a section on some key differences between S. pombe and S. cerevisiae is included for readers with some familiarity with budding yeast research but who may have an interest in developing research projects using S. pombe.
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- Charles S Hoffman
- Biology Department, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 02467
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- Cambridge Systems Biology Centre and Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, CB2 1GA Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- School of Biological Sciences, College of Science and Engineering, University of Edinburgh EH9 3JR Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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Sabatinos SA, Ranatunga NS, Yuan JP, Green MD, Forsburg SL. Replication stress in early S phase generates apparent micronuclei and chromosome rearrangement in fission yeast. Mol Biol Cell 2015; 26:3439-50. [PMID: 26246602 PMCID: PMC4591689 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e15-05-0318] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2015] [Accepted: 07/24/2015] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
Abstract
Unable to complete S phase, a fission yeast MCM mutant evades the mitotic checkpoint, causing aneuploidy, chromosome fragments, and bridges. The formation of apparent yeast micronuclei that are membrane bound is shown in real time; they develop DNA damage signals and may rejoin the parent nucleus. DNA replication stress causes genome mutations, rearrangements, and chromosome missegregation, which are implicated in cancer. We analyze a fission yeast mutant that is unable to complete S phase due to a defective subunit of the MCM helicase. Despite underreplicated and damaged DNA, these cells evade the G2 damage checkpoint to form ultrafine bridges, fragmented centromeres, and uneven chromosome segregations that resembles micronuclei. These micronuclei retain DNA damage markers and frequently rejoin with the parent nucleus. Surviving cells show an increased rate of mutation and chromosome rearrangement. This first report of micronucleus-like segregation in a yeast replication mutant establishes underreplication as an important factor contributing to checkpoint escape, abnormal chromosome segregation, and chromosome instability.
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- Sarah A Sabatinos
- Program in Molecular and Computational Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 Department of Chemistry and Biology, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON M5B 2K3, Canada
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- Program in Molecular and Computational Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089
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- Program in Molecular and Computational Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089
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- Program in Molecular and Computational Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089
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- Program in Molecular and Computational Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089
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Chen ZH, Yu YP, Michalopoulos G, Nelson J, Luo JH. The DNA replication licensing factor miniature chromosome maintenance 7 is essential for RNA splicing of epidermal growth factor receptor, c-Met, and platelet-derived growth factor receptor. J Biol Chem 2014; 290:1404-11. [PMID: 25425645 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m114.622761] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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Miniature chromosome maintenance 7 (MCM7) is an essential component of DNA replication licensing complex. Recent studies indicate that MCM7 is amplified and overexpressed in a variety of human malignancies. In this report, we show that MCM7 binds SF3B3. The binding motif is located in the N terminus (amino acids 221-248) of MCM7. Knockdown of MCM7 or SF3B3 significantly increased unspliced RNA of epidermal growth factor receptor, platelet-derived growth factor receptor, and c-Met. A dramatic drop of reporter gene expression of the oxytocin exon 1-intron-exon 2-EGFP construct was also identified in SF3B3 and MCM7 knockdown PC3 and DU145 cells. The MCM7 or SF3B3 depleted cell extract failed to splice reporter RNA in in vitro RNA splicing analyses. Knockdown of SF3B3 and MCM7 leads to an increase of cell death of both PC3 and DU145 cells. Such cell death induction is partially rescued by expressing spliced c-Met. To our knowledge, this is the first report suggesting that MCM7 is a critical RNA splicing factor, thus giving significant new insight into the oncogenic activity of this protein.
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- From the Departments of Pathology and
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- Urology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261
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Ding L, Laor D, Weisman R, Forsburg SL. Rapid regulation of nuclear proteins by rapamycin-induced translocation in fission yeast. Yeast 2014; 31:253-64. [PMID: 24733494 DOI: 10.1002/yea.3014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2014] [Revised: 04/03/2014] [Accepted: 04/04/2014] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Genetic analysis of protein function requires a rapid means of inactivating the gene under study. Typically, this exploits temperature-sensitive mutations or promoter shut-off techniques. We report the adaptation to Schizosaccharomyces pombe of the anchor-away technique, originally designed in budding yeast by Laemmli lab. This method relies on a rapamycin-mediated interaction between the FRB- and FKBP12-binding domains to relocalize nuclear proteins of interest to the cytoplasm. We demonstrate a rapid nuclear depletion of abundant proteins as proof of principle.
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- Lin Ding
- Molecular and Computational Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Kulikova DA, Mertsalov IB, Simonova OB. d4 family genes: Genomic organization and expression. Russ J Dev Biol 2013. [DOI: 10.1134/s1062360413010037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Zhang XY, Tang LZ, Ren BG, Yu YP, Nelson J, Michalopoulos G, Luo JH. Interaction of MCM7 and RACK1 for activation of MCM7 and cell growth. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY 2013; 182:796-805. [PMID: 23313748 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajpath.2012.11.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2012] [Revised: 09/18/2012] [Accepted: 11/07/2012] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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MCM7 is one of the pivotal DNA replication licensing factors in controlling DNA synthesis and cell entry into S phase. Its expression and DNA copy number are some of the most predictive factors for the growth and behavior of human malignancies. In this study, we identified that MCM7 interacts with the receptor for activated protein kinase C 1 (RACK1), a protein kinase C (PKC) adaptor, in vivo and in vitro. The RACK1 binding motif in MCM7 is located at the amino acid 221-248. Knocking down RACK1 significantly reduced MCM7 chromatin association, DNA synthesis, and cell cycle entry into S phase. Activation of PKC by 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate dramatically decreased MCM7 DNA replication licensing and induced cell growth arrest. Activation of PKC induced redistribution of RACK1 from nucleus to cytoplasm and decreased RACK1-chromatin association. The MCM7 mutant that does not bind RACK1 has no DNA replication licensing or oncogenic transformation activity. As a result, this study demonstrates a novel signaling mechanism that critically controls DNA synthesis and cell cycle progression.
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- Xi-Yue Zhang
- Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, USA
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Ding L, Forsburg SL. Schizosaccharomyces pombe minichromosome maintenance-binding protein (MCM-BP) antagonizes MCM helicase. J Biol Chem 2011; 286:32918-30. [PMID: 21813639 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m111.282541] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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The minichromosome maintenance (MCM) complex, a replicative helicase, is a heterohexamer essential for DNA duplication and genome stability. We identified Schizosaccharomyces pombe mcb1(+) (Mcm-binding protein 1), an apparent orthologue of the human MCM-binding protein that associates with a subset of MCM complex proteins. mcb1(+) is an essential gene. Deletion of mcb1(+) caused cell cycle arrest after several generations with a cdc phenotype and disrupted nuclear structure. Mcb1 is an abundant protein, constitutively present across the cell cycle. It is widely distributed in cytoplasm and nucleoplasm and bound to chromatin. Co-immunoprecipitation suggested that Mcb1 interacts robustly with Mcm3-7 but not Mcm2. Overproduction of Mcb1 disrupted the association of Mcm2 with other MCM proteins, resulting in inhibition of DNA replication, DNA damage, and activation of the checkpoint kinase Chk1. Thus, Mcb1 appears to antagonize the function of MCM helicase.
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- Lin Ding
- Molecular and Computational Biology Program, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089-2910, USA
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Luo JH. Oncogenic activity of MCM7 transforming cluster. World J Clin Oncol 2011; 2:120-4. [PMID: 21603321 PMCID: PMC3095470 DOI: 10.5306/wjco.v2.i2.120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2010] [Revised: 09/22/2010] [Accepted: 09/29/2010] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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The miniature chromosome maintenance (MCM) complex is a group of proteins that are essential for DNA replication licensing and control of cell cycle progression from G1 to S phase. Recent studies suggest that MCM7 is overexpressed and amplified in a variety of human malignancies. MCM7 genome sequence contains a cluster of miRNA that has been shown to downregulate expression of several tumor suppressors including p21, E2F1, BIM and pTEN. The oncogenic potential of MCM7 and its embedded miRNA has been demonstrated vigorously in in vitro experiments and in animal models, and they appear to cooperate in initiation of cancer. MCM7 protein also serves as a critical target for oncogenic signaling pathways such as androgen receptor signaling, or tumor suppressor pathways such as integrin α7 or retinoblastoma signaling. This review analyzes the transforming activity and signaling of MCM7, oncogenic function of miRNA cluster that is embedded in the MCM7 genome, and the potential of gene therapy that targets MCM7.
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- Jian-Hua Luo
- Jian-Hua Luo, Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 3550 Terrace Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, United States
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Reducing MCM levels in human primary T cells during the G(0)-->G(1) transition causes genomic instability during the first cell cycle. Oncogene 2010; 29:3803-14. [PMID: 20440261 DOI: 10.1038/onc.2010.138] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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DNA replication is tightly regulated, but paradoxically there is reported to be an excess of MCM DNA replication proteins over the number of replication origins. Here, we show that MCM levels in primary human T cells are induced during the G(0)-->G(1) transition and are not in excess in proliferating cells. The level of induction is critical as we show that a 50% reduction leads to increased centromere separation, premature chromatid separation (PCS) and gross chromosomal abnormalities typical of genomic instability syndromes. We investigated the mechanisms involved and show that a reduction in MCM levels causes dose-dependent DNA damage involving activation of ATR & ATM and Chk1 & Chk2. There is increased DNA mis-repair by non-homologous end joining (NHEJ) and both NHEJ and homologous recombination are necessary for Mcm7-depleted cells to progress to metaphase. Therefore, a simple reduction in MCM loading onto DNA, which occurs in cancers as a result of aberrant cell cycle control, is sufficient to cause PCS and gross genomic instability within one cell cycle.
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Shi YK, Yu YP, Zhu ZH, Han YC, Ren B, Nelson JB, Luo JH. MCM7 interacts with androgen receptor. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY 2008; 173:1758-67. [PMID: 18988800 DOI: 10.2353/ajpath.2008.080363] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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MCM7 is a critical component of the DNA replication licensing complex that controls DNA replication in both yeast and Xenopus. Our previous studies have indicated that MCM7 is both amplified and overexpressed in metastatic prostate cancer. In this study, we found that MCM7 interacts with the androgen receptor (AR) with high affinity both in vitro and in vivo. We identified the AR-binding motif for MCM7, comprised of amino acids 221 to 248, and the MCM7-binding motif for the AR, comprised of amino acids 426 to 475. AR stimulation with high doses of the synthetic androgen R1881 led to a decrease in MCM7 binding to genomic DNA, a reduction of DNA synthesis, decreases in the number of cells progressing through S phase and cell proliferation, whereas low doses produced an increase in the DNA licensing activity of MCM7 and higher levels of cell proliferation. In addition, the MCM7/AR interaction down-regulated MCM7 expression. The gene transcription or repressor activity of AR is dependent on its interaction with MCM7 because either a mutant AR defective in its interaction with MCM7 or a MCM7 knockdown primarily eliminated AR effects on gene expression. Thus, this study reveals a novel mechanism by which AR and MCM7 facilitate each other's function, suggesting that AR-independent activation of MCM7 may be a mechanism by which prostate cancers bypass therapeutically induced AR blockade.
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- Yi-Kang Shi
- Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15090, USA
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Correct regulation of the replication licensing system ensures that chromosomal DNA is precisely duplicated in each cell division cycle. Licensing proteins are inappropriately expressed at an early stage of tumorigenesis in a wide variety of cancers. Here we discuss evidence that misregulation of replication licensing is a consequence of oncogene-induced cell proliferation. This misregulation can cause either under- or over-replication of chromosomal DNA, and could explain the genetic instability commonly seen in cancer cells.
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- J Julian Blow
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Gene Regulation & Expression, University of Dundee, DD1 5EH, UK.
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Musahl C, Schulte D, Burkhart R, Knippers R. A Human Homologue of the Yeast Replication Protein Cdc21. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2008. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1995.1096g.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The MCM (minichromosome maintenance) complex is a helicase which is essential for DNA replication. Recent results suggest that the MCM helicase is important for replication fork integrity, and may function as a target of the replication checkpoint. Interactions between MCM proteins, checkpoint kinases, and repair and recovery proteins suggest that MCMs are proximal effectors of replication fork stability in the cell and are likely to play an important role in maintaining genome integrity.
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Minichromosome maintenance proteins interact with checkpoint and recombination proteins to promote s-phase genome stability. Mol Cell Biol 2008; 28:1724-38. [PMID: 18180284 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.01717-07] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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The minichromosome maintenance (MCM) complex plays essential, conserved roles throughout DNA synthesis: first, as a component of the prereplication complex at origins and, then, as a helicase associated with replication forks. Here we use fission yeast (Schizosaccharomyces pombe) as a model to demonstrate a role for the MCM complex in protecting replication fork structure and promoting recovery from replication arrest. Loss of MCM function generates lethal double-strand breaks at sites of DNA synthesis during replication elongation, suggesting replication fork collapse. MCM function also maintains the stability of forks stalled by hydroxyurea that activate the replication checkpoint. In cells where the checkpoint is activated, Mcm4 binds the Cds1 kinase and undergoes Cds1-dependent phosphorylation. MCM proteins also interact with proteins involved in homologous recombination, which promotes recovery from arrest by ensuring normal mitosis. We suggest that the MCM complex links replication fork stabilization with checkpoint arrest and recovery through direct interactions with checkpoint and recombination proteins and that this role in S-phase genome stability is conserved from yeast to human cells.
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Siam R, Gómez EB, Forsburg SL. Schizosaccharomyces pombe Rad4/Cut5 protein modification and chromatin binding changes in DNA damage. DNA Cell Biol 2007; 26:565-75. [PMID: 17688408 DOI: 10.1089/dna.2007.0582] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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The Schizosaccharomyces pombe Rad4/Cut5 protein is essential for DNA replication and checkpoint control. We have analyzed the behavior of the protein during unperturbed DNA replication, in different replication and checkpoint mutant backgrounds and in response to DNA-damaging agents. In an unperturbed cell cycle, Rad4 is chromatin bound and the mobility of the protein is not altered. Rad4 protein level and thus chromatin binding are dependent on a functional DNA polymerase epsilon. In response to replication arrest and DNA damage, the protein is modified in a Rad3-dependent manner. These data indicate that Rad4 undergoes diverse forms of regulation that are distinct in both DNA replication and checkpoint response.
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- Rania Siam
- Molecular and Cell Biology Laboratory, The Salk Institute, La Jolla, California, USA
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Gómez EB, Angeles VT, Forsburg SL. A screen for Schizosaccharomyces pombe mutants defective in rereplication identifies new alleles of rad4+, cut9+ and psf2+. Genetics 2004; 169:77-89. [PMID: 15466421 PMCID: PMC1448876 DOI: 10.1534/genetics.104.034231] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Fission yeast mutants defective in DNA replication have widely varying morphological phenotypes. We designed a screen for temperature-sensitive mutants defective in the process of replication regardless of morphology by isolating strains unable to rereplicate their DNA in the absence of cyclin B (Cdc13). Of the 42 rereplication-defective mutants analyzed, we were able to clone complementing plasmids for 10. This screen identified new alleles of the APC subunit cut9(+), the initiation/checkpoint factor rad4(+)/cut5(+), and the first mutant allele of psf2(+), a subunit of the novel GINS replication complex. Other genes identified are likely to play general roles in gene expression and protein localization.
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- Eliana B Gómez
- Molecular and Cell Biology Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California 92037, USA
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Spiga MG, D'Urso G. Identification and cloning of two putative subunits of DNA polymerase epsilon in fission yeast. Nucleic Acids Res 2004; 32:4945-53. [PMID: 15388803 PMCID: PMC519108 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkh811] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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DNA polymerase epsilon (Pol epsilon) is a multi-subunit enzyme required for the initiation of chromosomal DNA replication. Here, we report the cloning of two fission yeast genes, called dpb3+ and dpb4+ that encode proteins homologous to the two smallest subunits of Pol epsilon. Although Dpb4 is not required for cell viability, Deltadpb4 mutants are synthetically lethal with mutations in four genes required for DNA replication initiation, cdc20+ (encoding DNA Pol epsilon), cut5+ (homologous to DPB11/TopBP1), sna41+ (homologous to CDC45) and cdc21+ (encoding Mcm4, a component of the pre-replicative complex). In contrast to Dpb4, Dpb3 is essential for cell cycle progression. A glutathione S-transferase pull-down assay indicates that Dpb3 physically interacts with both Dpb2 and Dpb4, suggesting that Dpb3 associates with other members of the Pol epsilon complex. Depletion of Dpb3 leads to an accumulation of cells in S phase consistent with Dpb3 having a role in DNA replication. In addition, many of the cells have a bi-nucleate or multinucleate phenotype, indicating that cell separation is also inhibited. Finally, we have examined in vivo localization of green fluorescent protein (GFP)-tagged Dpb3 and Dpb4 and found that both proteins are localized to the nucleus consistent with their proposed role in DNA replication. However, in the absence of Dpb3, GFP-Dpb4 appears to be more dispersed throughout the cell, suggesting that Dpb3 may be important in establishing or maintaining normal localization of Dpb4.
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- Maria-Grazia Spiga
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Miami School of Medicine, PO Box 016129, Miami, FL 33101-1019, USA
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Dolan WP, Sherman DA, Forsburg SL. Schizosaccharomyces pombe replication protein Cdc45/Sna41 requires Hsk1/Cdc7 and Rad4/Cut5 for chromatin binding. Chromosoma 2004; 113:145-56. [PMID: 15338237 DOI: 10.1007/s00412-004-0302-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2004] [Revised: 06/14/2004] [Accepted: 06/15/2004] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Cdc45 is a conserved protein required for firing of replication origins and processive DNA replication. We used an in situ chromatin-binding assay to determine factors required for fission yeast Cdc45p chromatin binding. Assembly of the pre-replicative complex is essential for Cdc45p chromatin binding, but pre-replicative complex assembly occurs independently of Cdc45p. Fission yeast Cdc45p associates with MCM proteins in asynchronously growing cells and cells arrested in S phase by hydroxyurea, but not in cells arrested at the G2/M transition. Both hsk1+ (the fission yeast CDC7 homologue) and rad4+/ cut5+ (the fission yeast DPB11 homologue) are required for Cdc45p chromatin binding. Cdc45p also remains chromatin-bound in mutants that fail to recover from replication arrest. In summary, Cdc45p chromatin binding requires an intact pre-replicative complex as well as signaling from both the Dbf4-dependent kinase and cyclin-dependent kinases.
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- William P Dolan
- MCBL, The Salk Institute, 10010 N. Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
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The minichromosome maintenance (or MCM) protein family is composed of six related proteins that are conserved in all eukaryotes. They were first identified by genetic screens in yeast and subsequently analyzed in other experimental systems using molecular and biochemical methods. Early data led to the identification of MCMs as central players in the initiation of DNA replication. More recent studies have shown that MCM proteins also function in replication elongation, probably as a DNA helicase. This is consistent with structural analysis showing that the proteins interact together in a heterohexameric ring. However, MCMs are strikingly abundant and far exceed the stoichiometry of replication origins; they are widely distributed on unreplicated chromatin. Analysis of mcm mutant phenotypes and interactions with other factors have now implicated the MCM proteins in other chromosome transactions including damage response, transcription, and chromatin structure. These experiments indicate that the MCMs are central players in many aspects of genome stability.
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- Susan L Forsburg
- Molecular & Cell Biology Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California 92037, USA.
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Snaith HA, Marlett J, Forsburg SL. Ibp1p, a novel Cdc25-related phosphatase, suppresses Schizosaccharomyces pombe hsk1 ( cdc7). Curr Genet 2003; 44:38-48. [PMID: 14508607 DOI: 10.1007/s00294-003-0424-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2003] [Revised: 06/16/2003] [Accepted: 06/23/2003] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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We report the identification of a novel Cdc25-like protein phosphatase, Ibp1, in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Ibp1 is closely related to the catalytic subunit of the Cdc25 dual-specificity phosphatases and has phosphatase activity in vitro. Over-production of catalytically active Ibp1 robustly suppresses a mutation in the replication initiation kinase Hsk1p, a member of the Cdc7 family of protein kinases and weakly suppresses mutation of Rad4/Cut5, a DNA polymerase epsilon-associated factor. Ibp1 is not required for viability, suggesting it may be a non-essential regulator of DNA replication or chromosome structure during S phase.
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- Hilary A Snaith
- The Salk Institute, 10010 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037-1099, USA
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Gozuacik D, Chami M, Lagorce D, Faivre J, Murakami Y, Poch O, Biermann E, Knippers R, Bréchot C, Paterlini-Bréchot P. Identification and functional characterization of a new member of the human Mcm protein family: hMcm8. Nucleic Acids Res 2003; 31:570-9. [PMID: 12527764 PMCID: PMC140502 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg136] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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The six minichromosome maintenance proteins (Mcm2-7) are required for both the initiation and elongation of chromosomal DNA, ensuring that DNA replication takes place once, and only once, during the S phase. Here we report on the cloning of a new human Mcm gene (hMcm8) and on characterisation of its protein product. The hMcm8 gene contains the central Mcm domain conserved in the Mcm2-7 gene family, and is expressed in a range of cell lines and human tissues. hMcm8 mRNA accumulates during G(1)/S phase, while hMcm8 protein is detectable throughout the cell cycle. Immunoprecipitation-based studies did not reveal any participation of hMcm8 in the Mcm3/5 and Mcm2/4/6/7 subcomplexes. hMcm8 localises to the nucleus, although it is devoid of a nuclear localisation signal, suggesting that it binds to a nuclear protein. In the nucleus, the hMcm8 structure-bound fraction is detectable in S, but not in G(2)/M, phase, as for hMcm3. However, unlike hMcm3, the hMcm8 structure-bound fraction is not detectable in G(1) phase. Overall, our data identify a new Mcm protein, which does not form part of the Mcm2-7 complex and which is only structure-bound during S phase, thus suggesting its specific role in DNA replication.
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- Devrim Gozuacik
- INSERM Unit 370/Pasteur Institute, Faculté de Médecine Necker-Enfants Malades, 156 rue de Vaugirard, 75730, Paris, France
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Gómez EB, Catlett MG, Forsburg SL. Different phenotypes in vivo are associated with ATPase motif mutations in Schizosaccharomyces pombe minichromosome maintenance proteins. Genetics 2002; 160:1305-18. [PMID: 11973289 PMCID: PMC1462049 DOI: 10.1093/genetics/160.4.1305] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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The six conserved MCM proteins are essential for normal DNA replication. They share a central core of homology that contains sequences related to DNA-dependent and AAA(+) ATPases. It has been suggested that the MCMs form a replicative helicase because a hexameric subcomplex formed by MCM4, -6, and -7 proteins has in vitro DNA helicase activity. To test whether ATPase and helicase activities are required for MCM protein function in vivo, we mutated conserved residues in the Walker A and Walker B motifs of MCM4, -6, and -7 and determined that equivalent mutations in these three proteins have different in vivo effects in fission yeast. Some mutations reported to abolish the in vitro helicase activity of the mouse MCM4/6/7 subcomplex do not affect the in vivo function of fission yeast MCM complex. Mutations of consensus CDK sites in Mcm4p and Mcm7p also have no phenotypic consequences. Co-immunoprecipitation analyses and in situ chromatin-binding experiments were used to study the ability of the mutant Mcm4ps to associate with the other MCMs, localize to the nucleus, and bind to chromatin. We conclude that the role of ATP binding and hydrolysis is different for different MCM subunits.
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- Eliana B Gómez
- Molecular and Cell Biology Laboratory, The Salk Institute, La Jolla, California 92037, USA
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Pasion SG, Forsburg SL. Deconstructing a conserved protein family: the role of MCM proteins in eukaryotic DNA replication. GENETIC ENGINEERING 2002; 23:129-55. [PMID: 11570101 DOI: 10.1007/0-306-47572-3_8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/21/2023]
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- S G Pasion
- Molecular Biology and Virology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, 10010 N. Torrey Pines Rd., La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
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Liang DT, Forsburg SL. Characterization of Schizosaccharomyces pombe mcm7(+) and cdc23(+) (MCM10) and interactions with replication checkpoints. Genetics 2001; 159:471-86. [PMID: 11606526 PMCID: PMC1461838 DOI: 10.1093/genetics/159.2.471] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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MCM proteins are required for the proper regulation of DNA replication. We cloned fission yeast mcm7(+) and showed it is essential for viability; spores lacking mcm7(+) begin S phase later than wild-type cells and arrest with an apparent 2C DNA content. We isolated a novel temperature-sensitive allele, mcm7-98, and also characterized two temperature-sensitive alleles of the fission yeast homolog of MCM10, cdc23(+). mcm7-98 and both cdc23ts alleles arrest with damaged chromosomes and an S phase delay. We find that mcm7-98 is synthetically lethal with the other mcmts mutants but does not interact genetically with either cdc23ts allele. However, cdc23-M36 interacts with mcm4ts. Unlike other mcm mutants or cdc23, mcm7-98 is synthetically lethal with checkpoint mutants Deltacds1, Deltachk1, or Deltarad3, suggesting chromosomal defects even at permissive temperature. Mcm7p is a nuclear protein throughout the cell cycle, and its localization is dependent on the other MCM proteins. Our data suggest that the Mcm3p-Mcm5p dimer interacts with the Mcm4p-Mcm6p-Mcm7p core complex through Mcm7p.
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- D T Liang
- Department of Biology, University of California, San Diego, 92093, USA
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Burke TW, Cook JG, Asano M, Nevins JR. Replication factors MCM2 and ORC1 interact with the histone acetyltransferase HBO1. J Biol Chem 2001; 276:15397-408. [PMID: 11278932 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m011556200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 145] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The minichromosome maintenance (MCM) proteins, together with the origin recognition complex (ORC) proteins and Cdc6, play an essential role in eukaryotic DNA replication through the formation of a pre-replication complex at origins of replication. We used a yeast two-hybrid screen to identify MCM2-interacting proteins. One of the proteins we identified is identical to the ORC1-interacting protein termed HBO1. HBO1 belongs to the MYST family, characterized by a highly conserved C2HC zinc finger and a putative histone acetyltransferase domain. Biochemical studies confirmed the interaction between MCM2 and HBO1 in vitro and in vivo. An N-terminal domain of MCM2 is necessary for binding to HBO1, and a C2HC zinc finger of HBO1 is essential for binding to MCM2. A reverse yeast two-hybrid selection was performed to isolate an allele of MCM2 that is defective for interaction with HBO1; this allele was then used to isolate a suppressor mutant of HBO1 that restores the interaction with the mutant MCM2. This suppressor mutation was located in the HBO1 zinc finger. Taken together, these findings strongly suggest that the interaction between MCM2 and HBO1 is direct and mediated by the C2HC zinc finger of HBO1. The biochemical and genetic interactions of MYST family protein HBO1 with two components of the replication apparatus, MCM2 and ORC1, suggest that HBO1-associated HAT activity may play a direct role in the process of DNA replication.
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- T W Burke
- Department of Genetics, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
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The MCM proteins are essential replication initiation factors originally identified as proteins required for minichromosome maintenance in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The best known among them are a family of six structurally related proteins, MCM2-7, which are evolutionally conserved in all eukaryotes. The MCM2-7 proteins form a hexameric complex. This complex is a key component of the prereplication complex that assembles at replication origins during early G1 phase. New evidence suggests that the MCM2-7 proteins may be involved not only in the initiation but also in the elongation of DNA replication. Orchestration of the functional interactions between the MCM2-7 proteins and other components of the prereplication complex by cell cycle-dependent protein kinases results in initiation of DNA synthesis once every cell cycle.
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- B K Tye
- Section of Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853-2703, USA
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Forsburg SL, Hodson JA. Mitotic replication initiation proteins are not required for pre-meiotic S phase. Nat Genet 2000; 25:263-8. [PMID: 10888871 DOI: 10.1038/77015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Initiation of mitotic DNA replication in eukaryotes requires conserved factors, including Cdc18/CDC6 and minichromosome maintenance (MCM) proteins. We show here that these proteins are not essential for meiotic DNA replication or subsequent meiotic divisions in fission yeast. In addition, vegetative replication checkpoint genes are not required for the arrest of meiotic divisions in response to pre-meiotic S-phase delays. Genes essential for other aspects of vegetative DNA replication, however, including polymerases and DNA ligase, are also required for pre-meiotic DNA synthesis. Our results indicate that the process of replication initiation and checkpoint control may be fundamentally different in mitotic and meiotic cells.
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- S L Forsburg
- Molecular Biology and Virology Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, USA.
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Pasion SG, Forsburg SL. Nuclear localization of Schizosaccharomyces pombe Mcm2/Cdc19p requires MCM complex assembly. Mol Biol Cell 1999; 10:4043-57. [PMID: 10588642 PMCID: PMC25742 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.10.12.4043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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The minichromosome maintenance (MCM) proteins MCM2-MCM7 are conserved eukaryotic replication factors that assemble in a heterohexameric complex. In fission yeast, these proteins are nuclear throughout the cell cycle. In studying the mechanism that regulates assembly of the MCM complex, we analyzed the cis and trans elements required for nuclear localization of a single subunit, Mcm2p. Mutation of any single mcm gene leads to redistribution of wild-type MCM subunits to the cytoplasm, and this redistribution depends on an active nuclear export system. We identified the nuclear localization signal sequences of Mcm2p and showed that these are required for nuclear targeting of other MCM subunits. In turn, Mcm2p must associate with other MCM proteins for its proper localization; nuclear localization of MCM proteins thus requires assembly of MCM proteins in a complex. We suggest that coupling complex assembly to nuclear targeting and retention ensures that only intact heterohexameric MCM complexes remain nuclear.
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- S G Pasion
- The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, Molecular Biology and Virology Laboratory, La Jolla, California 92037, USA
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You Z, Komamura Y, Ishimi Y. Biochemical analysis of the intrinsic Mcm4-Mcm6-mcm7 DNA helicase activity. Mol Cell Biol 1999; 19:8003-15. [PMID: 10567526 PMCID: PMC84885 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.19.12.8003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 177] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Mcm proteins play an essential role in eukaryotic DNA replication, but their biochemical functions are poorly understood. Recently, we reported that a DNA helicase activity is associated with an Mcm4-Mcm6-Mcm7 (Mcm4,6,7) complex, suggesting that this complex is involved in the initiation of DNA replication as a DNA-unwinding enzyme. In this study, we have expressed and isolated the mouse Mcm2, 4,6,7 proteins from insect cells and characterized various mutant Mcm4,6,7 complexes in which the conserved ATPase motifs of the Mcm4 and Mcm6 proteins were mutated. The activities associated with such preparations demonstrated that the DNA helicase activity is intrinsically associated with the Mcm4,6,7 complex. Biochemical analyses of these mutant Mcm4,6,7 complexes indicated that the ATP binding activity of the Mcm6 protein in the complex is critical for DNA helicase activity and that the Mcm4 protein may play a role in the single-stranded DNA binding activity of the complex. The results also indicated that the two activities of DNA helicase and single-stranded DNA binding can be separated.
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- Z You
- Mitsubishi Kasei Institute of Life Sciences, Machida, Tokyo 194-8511, Japan
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Lygerou Z, Nurse P. The fission yeast origin recognition complex is constitutively associated with chromatin and is differentially modified through the cell cycle. J Cell Sci 1999; 112 ( Pt 21):3703-12. [PMID: 10523506 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.112.21.3703] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The origin recognition complex (ORC) binds to the well defined origins of DNA replication in budding yeast. Homologous proteins in other eukaryotes have been identified but are less well characterised. We report here the characterisation of a fission yeast ORC complex (SpORC). Database searches identified a fission yeast Orc5 homologue. SpOrc5 is essential for cell viability and its deletion phenotype is identical to that of two previously identified ORC subunit homologues, SpOrc1 (Orp1/Cdc30) and SpOrc2 (Orp2). Co-immunoprecipitation experiments demonstrate that SpOrc1 forms a complex with SpOrc2 and SpOrc5 and gel filtration chromatography shows that SpOrc1 and SpOrc5 fractionate as high molecular mass complexes. SpORC subunits localise to the nucleus in a punctate distribution which persists throughout interphase and mitosis. We developed a chromatin isolation protocol and show that SpOrc1, 2 and 5 are associated with chromatin at all phases of the cell cycle. While the levels, nuclear localisation and chromatin association of SpORC remain constant through the cell cycle, one of its subunits, SpOrc2, is differentially modified. We show that SpOrc2 is a phosphoprotein which is hypermodified in mitosis and is rapidly converted to a faster migrating isoform as cells proceed into G(1) in preparation for S-phase.
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- Z Lygerou
- Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London, WC2A 3PX, UK. z.lygerou@icrf. icnet.uk
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Suto K, Nagata A, Murakami H, Okayama H. A double-strand break repair component is essential for S phase completion in fission yeast cell cycling. Mol Biol Cell 1999; 10:3331-43. [PMID: 10512870 PMCID: PMC25599 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.10.10.3331] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Fission yeast rad22(+), a homologue of budding yeast RAD52, encodes a double-strand break repair component, which is dispensable for proliferation. We, however, have recently obtained a cell division cycle mutant with a temperature-sensitive allele of rad22(+), designated rad22-H6, which resulted from a point mutation in the conserved coding sequence leading to one amino acid alteration. We have subsequently isolated rad22(+) and its novel homologue rti1(+) as multicopy suppressors of this mutant. rti1(+) suppresses all the defects of cells lacking rad22(+). Mating type switch-inactive heterothallic cells lacking either rad22(+) or rti1(+) are viable, but those lacking both genes are inviable and arrest proliferation with a cell division cycle phenotype. At the nonpermissive temperature, a synchronous culture of rad22-H6 cells performs DNA synthesis without delay and arrests with chromosomes seemingly intact and replication completed and with a high level of tyrosine-phosphorylated Cdc2. However, rad22-H6 cells show a typical S phase arrest phenotype if combined with the rad1-1 checkpoint mutation. rad22(+) genetically interacts with rad11(+), which encodes the large subunit of replication protein A. Deletion of rad22(+)/rti1(+) or the presence of rad22-H6 mutation decreases the restriction temperature of rad11-A1 cells by 4-6 degrees C and leads to cell cycle arrest with chromosomes incompletely replicated. Thus, in fission yeast a double-strand break repair component is required for a certain step of chromosome replication unlinked to repair, partly via interacting with replication protein A.
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- K Suto
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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Oshiro G, Owens JC, Shellman Y, Sclafani RA, Li JJ. Cell cycle control of Cdc7p kinase activity through regulation of Dbf4p stability. Mol Cell Biol 1999; 19:4888-96. [PMID: 10373538 PMCID: PMC84289 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.19.7.4888] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the heteromeric kinase complex Cdc7p-Dbf4p plays a pivotal role at replication origins in triggering the initiation of DNA replication during the S phase. We have assayed the kinase activity of endogenous levels of Cdc7p kinase by using a likely physiological target, Mcm2p, as a substrate. Using this assay, we have confirmed that Cdc7p kinase activity fluctuates during the cell cycle; it is low in the G1 phase, rises as cells enter the S phase, and remains high until cells complete mitosis. These changes in kinase activity cannot be accounted for by changes in the levels of the catalytic subunit Cdc7p, as these levels are constant during the cell cycle. However, the fluctuations in kinase activity do correlate with levels of the regulatory subunit Dbf4p. The regulation of Dbf4p levels can be attributed in part to increased degradation of the protein in G1 cells. This G1-phase instability is cdc16 dependent, suggesting a role of the anaphase-promoting complex in the turnover of Dbf4p. Overexpression of Dbf4p in the G1 phase can partially overcome this elevated turnover and lead to an increase in Cdc7p kinase activity. Thus, the regulation of Dbf4p levels through the control of Dbf4p degradation has an important role in the regulation of Cdc7p kinase activity during the cell cycle.
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- G Oshiro
- Molecular Biology Program, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado 80262, USA
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Snaith HA, Forsburg SL. Rereplication phenomenon in fission yeast requires MCM proteins and other S phase genes. Genetics 1999; 152:839-51. [PMID: 10388806 PMCID: PMC1460649 DOI: 10.1093/genetics/152.3.839] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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The fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe can be induced to perform multiple rounds of DNA replication without intervening mitoses by manipulating the activity of the cyclin-dependent kinase p34(cdc2). We have examined the role in this abnormal rereplication of a large panel of genes known to be involved in normal S phase. The genes analyzed can be grouped into four classes: (1) those that have no effect on rereplication, (2) others that delay DNA accumulation, (3) several that allow a gradual increase in DNA content but not in genome equivalents, and finally, (4) mutations that completely block rereplication. The rereplication induced by overexpression of the CDK inhibitor Rum1p or depletion of the Cdc13p cyclin is essentially the same and requires the activity of two minor B-type cyclins, cig1(+) and cig2(+). In particular, the level, composition, and localization of the MCM protein complex does not alter during rereplication. Thus rereplication in fission yeast mimics the DNA synthesis of normal S phase, and the inability to rereplicate provides an excellent assay for novel S-phase mutants.
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- H A Snaith
- The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California 92037-1099, USA
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Liang DT, Hodson JA, Forsburg SL. Reduced dosage of a single fission yeast MCM protein causes genetic instability and S phase delay. J Cell Sci 1999; 112 ( Pt 4):559-67. [PMID: 9914167 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.112.4.559] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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MCM proteins are a conserved family of eukaryotic replication factors implicated in the initiation of DNA replication and in the discrimination between replicated and unreplicated chromatin. However, most mcm mutants in yeast arrest the cell cycle after bulk DNA synthesis has occurred. We investigated the basis for this late S phase arrest by analyzing the effects of a temperature-sensitive mutation in fission yeast cdc19(+)(mcm2(+)). cdc19-P1 cells show a dramatic loss of viability at the restrictive temperature, which is not typical of all S phase mutants. The cdc19-P1 cell cycle arrest requires an intact damage-response checkpoint and is accompanied by increased rates of chromosome loss and mitotic recombination. Chromosomes from cdc19-P1 cells migrate aberrantly in pulsed-field gels, typical of strains arrested with unresolved replication intermediates. The cdc19-P1 mutation reduces the level of the Cdc19 protein at all temperatures. We compared the effects of disruptions of cdc19(+)(mcm2(+)), cdc21(+)(mcm4(+)), nda4(+)(mcm5(+)) and mis5(+)(mcm6(+)); in all cases, the null mutants underwent delayed S phase but were unable to proceed through the cell cycle. Examination of protein levels suggests that this delayed S phase reflects limiting, but not absent, MCM proteins. Thus, reduced dosage of MCM proteins allows replication initiation, but is insufficient for completion of S phase and cell cycle progression.
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- D T Liang
- Department of Biology, University of California, San Diego CA 92093, USA.
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Tanaka H, Tanaka K, Murakami H, Okayama H. Fission yeast cdc24 is a replication factor C- and proliferating cell nuclear antigen-interacting factor essential for S-phase completion. Mol Cell Biol 1999; 19:1038-48. [PMID: 9891039 PMCID: PMC116034 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.19.2.1038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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At the nonpermissive temperature the fission yeast cdc24-M38 mutant arrests in the cell cycle with incomplete DNA replication as indicated by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. The cdc24(+) gene encodes a 501-amino-acid protein with no significant homology to any known proteins. The temperature-sensitive cdc24 mutant is effectively rescued by pcn1(+), rfc1(+) (a fission yeast homologue of RFC1), and hhp1(+), which encode the proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA), the large subunit of replication factor C (RFC), and a casein kinase I involved in DNA damage repair, respectively. The Cdc24 protein binds PCNA and RFC1 in vivo, and the domains essential for Cdc24 function and for RFC1 and PCNA binding colocalize in the N-terminal two-thirds of the molecule. In addition, cdc24(+) genetically interacts with the gene encoding the catalytic subunit of DNA polymerase epsilon, which is stimulated by PCNA and RFC, and with those encoding the fission yeast counterparts of Mcm2, Mcm4, and Mcm10. These results indicate that Cdc24 is an RFC- and PCNA-interacting factor required for DNA replication and might serve as a target for regulation.
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- H Tanaka
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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In recent years considerable effort has been invested toward understanding the molecular mechanisms that regulate and restrict DNA replication to once per each cell cycle. An important contribution came from studying the phenomenon of endoreduplication-an endonuclear duplication of chromosomes which occurs in the absence of mitosis leading to the production of chromosomes with doubling series of chromatids. Because endoreduplicating nuclei retain the capability of replication without passing through mitosis, they provide a unique system for studying the molecular mechanisms that restrict DNA replication to once per cycle. Three types of endoreduplication can be identified: I, multiple initiations within a given S phase; II, reoccurring S phase; and III, repeated S and Gap phases. Each of these illuminates a different control level acting over the onset of S phase, which coordinately restrict DNA synthesis to once per each cell cycle.
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- G Grafi
- Department of Plant Sciences, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 76100, Israel
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Sherman DA, Forsburg SL. Schizosaccharomyces pombe Mcm3p, an essential nuclear protein, associates tightly with Nda4p (Mcm5p). Nucleic Acids Res 1998; 26:3955-60. [PMID: 9705504 PMCID: PMC147805 DOI: 10.1093/nar/26.17.3955] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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MCM proteins are required for the proper regulation of DNA replication. There are six MCM proteins in all eukaryotes which interact to form a large complex. We report the cloning of fission yeast mcm3 +. mcm3 + is essential and spores carrying a Delta mcm3 disruption arrest with an apparently replicated DNA content. The protein is found constitutively in the nucleus and levels remain constant throughout the cell cycle. Mcm3p binds particularly tightly to Nda4p (Mcm5p), but is loosely associated with the other Schizosaccharomyces pombe MCM proteins. Thus, Mcm3p is a peripheral MCM subunit.
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- D A Sherman
- Molecular Biology and Virology Laboratory, The Salk Institute, 10010 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla,CA 92037, USA
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Fujita M, Yamada C, Tsurumi T, Hanaoka F, Matsuzawa K, Inagaki M. Cell cycle- and chromatin binding state-dependent phosphorylation of human MCM heterohexameric complexes. A role for cdc2 kinase. J Biol Chem 1998; 273:17095-101. [PMID: 9642275 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.273.27.17095] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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The mammalian MCM protein family, presently with six members, exists in the nuclei in two forms, chromatin-bound and unbound. The former dissociates from chromatin with progression through the S phase. Recently, we have established a procedure to isolate chromatin-bound and unbound complexes containing all six human MCM (hMCM) proteins by immunoprecipitation. In the present study, we applied this procedure to HeLa cells synchronized in each of the G1, S, and G2/M phases and could detect hMCM heterohexameric complexes in all three. In addition, depending on the cell cycle and the state of chromatin association, hMCM2 and 4 in the complexes were found to variously change their phosphorylation states. Concentrating attention on G2/M phase hyperphosphorylation, we found hMCM2 and 4 in the complexes to be good substrates for cdc2/cyclin B in vitro. Furthermore, when cdc2 kinase was inactivated in temperature-sensitive mutant murine FT210 cells, the G2/M hyperphosphorylation of the murine MCM2 and MCM4 and release of the MCMs from chromatin in the G2 phase were severely impaired. Taken together, the data suggest that the six mammalian MCM proteins function and undergo cell cycle-dependent regulation as heterohexameric complexes and that phosphorylation of the complexes by cdc2 kinase may be one of mechanisms negatively regulating the MCM complex-chromatin association.
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- M Fujita
- Laboratories of Viral Oncology, Research Institute, Aichi Cancer Center, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, 464, Japan.
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Sherman DA, Pasion SG, Forsburg SL. Multiple domains of fission yeast Cdc19p (MCM2) are required for its association with the core MCM complex. Mol Biol Cell 1998; 9:1833-45. [PMID: 9658174 PMCID: PMC25423 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.9.7.1833] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/1997] [Accepted: 04/07/1998] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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The members of the MCM protein family are essential eukaryotic DNA replication factors that form a six-member protein complex. In this study, we use antibodies to four MCM proteins to investigate the structure of and requirements for the formation of fission yeast MCM complexes in vivo, with particular regard to Cdc19p (MCM2). Gel filtration analysis shows that the MCM protein complexes are unstable and can be broken down to subcomplexes. Using coimmunoprecipitation, we find that Mis5p (MCM6) and Cdc21p (MCM4) are tightly associated with one another in a core complex with which Cdc19p loosely associates. Assembly of Cdc19p with the core depends upon Cdc21p. Interestingly, there is no obvious change in Cdc19p-containing MCM complexes through the cell cycle. Using a panel of Cdc19p mutants, we find that multiple domains of Cdc19p are required for MCM binding. These studies indicate that MCM complexes in fission yeast have distinct substructures, which may be relevant for function.
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- D A Sherman
- Molecular Biology and Virology Laboratory, The Salk Institute, La Jolla, California 92037, USA
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Hiraiwa A, Fujita M, Adachi A, Ono H, Nagasaka T, Matsumoto Y, Ohashi M, Tomita Y, Ishibashi M. Specific distribution patterns of hCDC47 expression in cutaneous diseases. J Cutan Pathol 1998; 25:285-90. [PMID: 9694616 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0560.1998.tb01747.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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hCDC47 is a human member of the MCM family, which has been implicated to be concerned with the regulatory machinery causing DNA to replicate once per cell cycle. In a previous paper, we described hCDC47 expression as being localized in the proliferative component of normal tissues, and showed greater expression in squamous cell skin carcinomas than in seborrheic keratosis. In the present study, we compared its expression in another type of skin tumor and various non-neoplastic cutaneous proliferative diseases. Two patterns of distribution of hCDC47-positive cells were observed. Keratoacanthomas showed a peripheral pattern in which only the cells located the basal cell layers were positive. Psoriasis vulgaris also showed this peripheral type of location, with the cells in the suprabasal layers also occasionally expressing hCDC47. Verruca vulgaris demonstrated a diffuse pattern, with positive epithelial cells distributed throughout the layers. Basal cell carcinomas also showed a similar pattern. The keratoacanthomas showed the highest hCDC47 positive cell rate (43.1%), followed by verruca vulgaris (42.5%), psoriasis vulgaris (23.4%), and basal cell carcinoma (17.3%). Our results suggest participation of hCDC47 in these proliferative disorders involving keratinocytes.
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- A Hiraiwa
- Department of Dermatology, Nagoya University School of Medicine, Japan.
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Gould KL, Burns CG, Feoktistova A, Hu CP, Pasion SG, Forsburg SL. Fission yeast cdc24(+) encodes a novel replication factor required for chromosome integrity. Genetics 1998; 149:1221-33. [PMID: 9649516 PMCID: PMC1460225 DOI: 10.1093/genetics/149.3.1221] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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A mutation within the Schizosaccharomyces pombe cdc24(+) gene was identified previously in a screen for cell division cycle mutants and the cdc24(+) gene was determined to be essential for S phase in this yeast. We have isolated the cdc24(+) gene by complementation of a new temperature-sensitive allele of the gene, cdc24-G1. The DNA sequence predicts the presence of an open reading frame punctuated by six introns which encodes a pioneer protein of 58 kD. A cdc24 null mutant was generated by homologous recombination. Haploid cells lacking cdc24(+) are inviable, indicating that cdc24(+) is an essential gene. The transcript of cdc24(+) is present at constant levels throughout the cell cycle. Cells lacking cdc24(+) function show a checkpoint-dependent arrest with a 2N DNA content, indicating a block late in S phase. Arrest is accompanied by a rapid loss of viability and chromosome breakage. An S. pombe homolog of the replicative DNA helicase DNA2 of S. cerevisiae suppresses cdc24. These results suggest that Cdc24p plays a role in the progression of normal DNA replication and is required to maintain genomic integrity.
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- K L Gould
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Cell Biology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee 38232, USA.
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